Posts by Sacha
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Anyone else having trouble with the site? - I was trying to deal with that double post for so long the edit time expired.
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I'm afraid the govt spin machine is not honouring Craig's sense of fairness - and it's paying off. Today the tame journos at the Herald tell us that the budget is all about "socking it to the rich". Oh, and poor people - that nice Mr Key tells us you'll make out like bandits today. Yes, seriously, the kool aid is delicious.
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I'm afraid the govt spin machine is not honouring Craig's sense of fairness - ad it's paying off. Today the tame journos at the Herald tell us that the budget is all about "socking it to the rich". Oh, and poor people - that nice Mr Key tells us you'll make out like bandits today. Yes, seriously, the kool aid is delicious.
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We need smart, sustainable, global wealth for our children to work with and own a share of.
By contrast, I wonder how many burly bodyguards Blue Chip douchebag Bryers will have with him at the court tomorrow when he is lightly slapped with a wet bus ticket as one of his victims suggests is his likely fate.
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we are the editors...
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Maybe I'm still supposed to envy nurses?
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Was it Michelle Boag?
Judy Kirk I think, but Joyce still crucial to their win and knows where the bodies are buried
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I was misinterpreted, says Key.
"What I actually said on Monday was that people paying the top personal rate included skilled professionals like doctors, engineers, scientists, and the like who fit into some core and critical categories in the economy," Mr Key said.
"Those people are in demand all around the world and we need to have their careers here, and for them to be put to work in New Zealand."
Mr Key said he was not referring to "rich" people, because those people generally did not pay the top personal rate.
He indicated the tax system would be tightened to clamp down on high income earners who arrange their affairs to avoid paying tax.
"Really wealthy people will probably find that they are paying considerably more tax as a result of the budget tomorrow, not less."
Mr English said it was not fair that high salary earners like doctors, scientists and engineers were often paying more tax than wealthy property speculators and the budget would address that.
Oh, so he was only talking about people who pay the top rate, not the "really wealthy" spongers who get away with avoiding that.
Now which group am I meant to not envy?
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I think Joyce was their campaign manager wasn't he, not president?
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And did you notice the govt furiously back-pedalling today on Key's admission that rich people would benefit most?
Why don't they just have the courage of their convictions like the honourable Ruth Richardson and Jenny Shipley did?